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Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country’s armed forces. The holiday, which is observed every year on the last Monday of May (in year 2016, it is Monday, May 30, 2016)originated as Decoration Day after the American Civil War in 1868, when the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans founded in Decatur, Illinois, established it as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the Union war dead with flowers. By the 20th century, competing Union and Confederate holiday traditions, celebrated on different days, had merged, and Memorial Day eventually extended to honor all Americans who died while in the military service. It marks the start of the unofficial summer vacation season, while Labor Day marks its end.

Many people visit cemeteries and memorials, particularly to honor those who have died in military service. Many volunteers place an American flag on each grave in national cemeteries.

for particular cemeteries are held on a Sunday in late spring or early summer in some rural areas of the American South, notably in the mountain areas. In cases involving a family graveyard where remote ancestors as well as those who were deceased more recently are buried, this may take on the character of an extended family reunion to which some people travel hundreds of miles. People gather on the designated day and put flowers on graves and renew contacts with relatives and others. There often is a religious service and a picnic-like “dinner on the grounds,” the traditional term for a potluck meal at a church. It is believed that this practice began before the American Civil War and thus may reflect the real origin of the “memorial day” idea.

Memorial Day is not to be confused with Veterans Day; Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving, while Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans.

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Let’s pause for a moment on this day to think of those people who sacrificed their lives without noise or complaints, below:

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ~George Washington

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ~Helen Keller

To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die. ~Thomas Campbell

The flames cannot burn away the past. Thy only make the shadows leap higher.~Max Payne

The best road to progress is freedom’s road. ~John F. Kennedy

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. ~Nelson Mandela

Expose yourself to your deepest fear;after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. ~Jim Morrison

Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for. ~Tennessee Williams

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. ~Ronald Reagan

True freedom is tolerance. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways. ~John Twelve Hawks

Freedom lies in being bold. ~Robert Frost

The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage. ~Carrie Jones

A hero is some one who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself ~Joseph Campbell

The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree. ~Thomas Campbell

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children. ~William Havard

The dead solder’s silence sings our national anthem. ~Aaron Kilbourn

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them. ~Francis A. Walker

Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country. ~John F. Kennedy

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. ~Mark Twain

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ~Bill Clinton

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayer of the good, and the valor of the brave. ~Muhammad

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened. ~Billy Graham

The nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. ~Elmer Davis

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